You’re not imagining it: The AI job squeeze isn’t some future apocalypse, it’s already quietly underway. Professor Yoshua Bengio spent four decades building the technology that is now coming for your job. He is a computer science professor at the Université de Montréal, a Turing Award winner, and one of the most-cited scientists in the…
SAN DIEGO – March 26, 2026 – Shield AI today announced it is raising $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation and $500 million in fixed-return preferred equity financing. The Series G is led by Advent International and co-led by the Strategic Investment Group of JPMorganChase’s Security and Resiliency Initiative,…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Shares of memory chip makers fell Wednesday after Google unveiled a compression technology that could reduce memory requirements for artificial intelligence systems. SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) dropped nearly 6%, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) fell 3%, Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) declined about 5% and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) slid 4%. The broader Nasdaq 100 index…
For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, juries in two states took their side. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury found both Meta and…
U.S. stocks and bonds sold off Thursday and oil continued its weekslong upward trajectory, as optimism faded about possible peace talks or a U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The price of U.S. crude oil rose near $95 per barrel, up more than 4%. International Brent crude rose 5%, to more than $109 per barrel. Since the war started,…
Twenty-two years ago a famous American became the poster child for insider trading when she was found to have taken a tip from her broker about a falling stock price and saved herself about $45,000 in losses. Martha Stewart, the extremely wealthy entrepreneur and “domestic lifestyle influencer,” spent five months in jail for lying about…
Paramount Skydance will be one step closer to swallowing up Warner Bros. Discovery if WBD shareholders OK the $111 billion deal at a special meeting to vote on the merger next month. Warner Bros. Discovery has set the special meeting for the stockholders vote on the Paramount deal will on April 23, 2026, at 10…
In this article AURC COIN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Fannie Mae will now accept crypto-backed mortgages via a new product by mortgage company Better Home and Finance and Coinbase. It’s not the first crypto backed mortgage, but it is the first accepted by Fannie Mae, which is under government conservatorship. The offering allows…
In this article UAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport, seeking a new contract. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images United Airlines and its flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor deal that will include their first raises in roughly six…
Today, Arm is announcing the Arm AGI CPU, a new class of production-ready silicon built on the Arm Neoverse platform and designed to power the next generation of AI infrastructure. For the first time in our more than 35-year history, Arm is delivering its own silicon products – extending the Arm Neoverse platform beyond IP and…
It’s taken 10 years and almost $4 billion. But light rail across Lake Washington should finally open on Saturday. For riders, that means shorter commutes and faster trips to the airport, sporting events, and parks. But economists say the impact could go much further. They point to a surprising example: a bridge in Scandinavia that…
Back in October, OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI video generator and fake social media app were being described as “the end of Hollywood”. They went viral due to their ability to put people into realistic-looking short videos using just reference imagery and simple text prompts. Five months later, they’re closing down – apparently because one of…
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks at a news conference on his marathon overnight speech on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol Building on Oct. 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images A group of congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation that would ban prediction market bets on elections, government actions, war…
“There’s a million different ways to get institutional funding, but you can’t get any of those for cannabis because of federal law,” he says. Despite the headwinds, Ambrosino has managed to grow his business and now employs around 80 people, and is hopeful that the increased licences for legal shops in New York will mean more sales…
Colorful epic aerial panorama of San Francisco skyline downtown with business building skyscraper and waterfront at twilight in California, USA. Prasit Photo | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions,…
Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English have been charged with conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations. The three defendants are alleged to have sought millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for illegal shipment to China through Thailand. “The cutting-edge AI chips the…
If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what the internet thinks. The joke is a reference to the fictional startup Pied Piper that was the focus of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” TV series…
Image: Vineyard Wind Offshore Renewable energy provided over a quarter of US electrical generation in January 2026 – 11% more year-over-year – and accounted for over 36% of installed generating capacity, according to data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In 2026, the EIA reports that solar, wind, and batteries added over…
The systems in place at New York’s LaGuardia Airport to prevent ground collisions failed to keep an Air Canada jet from smashing into a fire truck that had just pulled out on the runway as the plane was landing. The National Transportation Safety Board will determine what went wrong before Sunday’s crash that killed both…
See the biggest price drops on my favorite gadgets from DJI, Sony, Samsung, and Apple. By Timothy Beck Werth Timothy Beck Werth Tech Editor Timothy Beck Werth is the Tech Editor at Mashable, where he leads coverage and assignments for the Tech and Shopping verticals. Tim has over 15 years of experience as a journalist…
Amazon’s latest sale runs through March 31st, making now a great time to save on smart speakers, chargers, and other tech. Updated Mar 26, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. Amazon loves to manufacture an…
New York — Investors are increasingly yanking their money from private credit funds that lend directly to businesses on worries that could unfortunately become all of our worries, whether we’re trading stocks or just going about our own lives. So what’s the deal with private credit, and should everyone start stashing gold under their mattresses? The…
U.S. stocks rose Wednesday and global oil prices fell in yet another volatile trading session as traders and investors were buffeted by constant headlines about the war in Iran. News of a 15-point U.S. peace plan proposal sparked hopes early in the day that the Trump administration was moving to end its monthlong war against…
LOS ANGELES — On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co. and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI’s AI video tool. Just 30 minutes after that meeting, the Disney team was blindsided with word that OpenAI was dropping the tool altogether, a person familiar with the matter said. OpenAI announced the…
For years, pilots have complained about controller miscommunication and close calls with ground vehicles at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, according to reports filed in publicly available databases. CBS News reviewed dozens of reports dating back three decades about the airport, where a deadly collision occurred earlier this week. “Please do something,” an airline captain who…
Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the Nation’s foremost luminaries in science and technology to advise the President and provide recommendations on strengthening American leadership in science and technology. The Council will be co-chaired…
Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict in the landmark case brought by a woman known as KGM against social media platforms. It awarded US$3 million in…
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In this article ARM META META AVGO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rene Haas, chief executive officer of Arm Holdings Plc, holds the AGI CPU chip during the Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arm jumped 16% on Wednesday…
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On Monday, President Trump’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a French multinational oil company. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The company, TotalEnergies, had spent that amount during the Biden administration to secure two leases allowing it to build…
Postal carrier Marc Jacques delivers the mail in a neighborhood on March 19, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday said it is seeking to impose a temporary 8% fuel surcharge for package and express mail deliveries to deal with rising transportation costs, which include higher oil…